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1 Syllabus Cultural Resource Management (01 SYLLABUS CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (01-070-393) Rutgers University – Department of Anthropology Fall 2012 Lecture day/hours: Thursdays, 12:35-3:35 PM; BIO 302 Lecture location: BIO 302, Cook/Douglass Campus Instructor: Dr. Katharine Woodhouse-Beyer, RPA [email protected] Office Hours: Thursdays 11:00 – 12:00pm, Ruth Adams Building Room 315. Please schedule an appointment by sending an email at least 24 hours before class. We can also arrange to meet just before or after class, or via a telephone conference call; again, please email ahead of time to make these arrangements. COURSE DESCRIPTION Cultural resource management is an interdisciplinary and professional discipline whose practitioners utilize a combination of historical, architectural, and archaeological investigations in compliance with federal, state and local regulations requiring the identification, preservation, and/or mitigation of cultural resources. Cultural resource management specialists, and particularly, archaeologists working within this field, emerge at the front lines of negotiation between the past and the present as the U.S. government and its many communities must carefully balance a concern for the preservation of cultural resources alongside the growing need for construction, maintenance, and development projects. This course will specifically focus on topics concerning cultural resource management as a professional field within anthropology, and specifically, anthropological archaeology. It has been estimated that over half of the archaeologists working in the U.S. work within cultural resource management and that over 90% of archaeological investigations conducted in the U.S. are cultural resource management projects (Thomas and Kelly 2007). The course introduces students to the history and evolution of cultural resource management and legislation relating to archaeological resources in the U.S. from the early 20th century onwards, discusses methods of identifying and evaluating archaeological sites within a cultural resource management framework, provides guidance on basic skills of project planning, management, and client communications, and explores a wide variety of topical issues and case studies concerning the status of cultural resource management as a professional field wrestling with many of the cultural, social, and economic challenges of the 21st century. 1 Course Objectives: Through active course attendance, in-class group exercises, individual and group research, and regularly scheduled examinations covering course readings and lecture material, students enrolled in Cultural Resource Management will become proficient in knowing the history of cultural resource legislation in the United States as well as will become familiar with methodology and case studies concerning cultural resource management as practiced in the United States today. The course additionally seeks to provide students with a solid grounding in understanding the staged process of cultural resource management from the identification through to the evaluation of archaeological resources as well as the business and ethical aspects of cultural resource management in the challenged economy of the early 21st century. Course Goals: By the end of our course of study, students will: 1. Attain a detailed knowledge of the goals, methods, and applications of cultural resource management with a particular focus on archaeological projects and case study sites in the United States; 2. Be able to discuss cultural resource legislation - how it emerged in the early 20th century United States, how later legislation was refined in scope and terminology, and the strengths and weaknesses of specific legislative acts; 3. Critically evaluate and respond to real and simulated cultural resource management situations in areas relating to ethics, scope, business practice, methodology and public involvement; 4. Understand the fundamentals of cultural resource management as a business, and have the ability to prepare components of a cultural resource management project proposal and final report. Course Texts and Readings: A key to doing well in this course is to attend all lectures, keep up with the reading assignments, participate in discussions, and take detailed class and text notes. Required Texts: There are two required books for this course – both are available at the main Rutgers Bookstore (Barnes and Noble). You are also expected to access/read/print materials on cultural resource legislation from the internet: http://www.nps.gov/archeology/TOOLS/LAWS/AntAct.htm. Readings are to be completed for the day that the reading is listed in the syllabus. King, Thomas F. 2008 Cultural Resource Laws and Practice, Third Edition. Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania: Altamira Press. Neumann, Thomas W. and Robert M. Sanford. 2 2010 Cultural Resources Archaeology: An Introduction. 2nd Edition. Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania: Altamira Press. Additional Required Readings (posted on SAKAI website): SAKAI website: https://sakai.rutgers.edu ; Scroll to: “01:070:393” All students registered for the class are subscribed to the course SAKAI site. Multiple articles and assignments will be scanned onto the website and listed under “Resources“. All of these documents will be posted on the course SAKAI website in advance of the class in which it will be referenced and/or discussed. Take note that additional readings beyond those which are posted for the required readings may be posted – this is because during the time of our course there may be debates about cultural resource laws and/or newspaper or other publications which may have great relevance to our course topics. These articles will be noted as “optional reading.” I will also post class PowerPoint files on the SAKAI website (“Resources”) for study aides; however, note that Power Points are used as a visual teaching device and do not include all material covered in lectures or in the textbook. The files will be posted within 24 hours after the class in which the material is covered. COURSE ASSIGNMENTS: There will be 2 short home assignments, 1 midterm exam, 1 group presentation project, and 1 research paper distributed throughout the course - and a Final Exam. Multiple assignments of different grade weights are given in order to assist students in managing large amounts of course information as well as to provide an opportunity in which to improve skills in exam-taking and knowledge of course terms and topics. COURSE ASSIGNMENT WEIGHT DUE DATE Class attendance 5% CUMULATIVE THROUGH COURSE Graded Assignment #1 10% SEPTEMBER 27 – IN CLASS Research Paper Topic 5% OCTOBER 4 – IN CLASS Graded Assignment #2 15% OCTOBER 11 – IN CLASS Midterm Exam 15% OCTOBER 18 – IN CLASS Group Presentation 15% NOVEMBER 8 – IN CLASS Research Paper 15% DECEMBER 6, 5 PM SAKAI Final Exam 20% DUE BY DEC. 20, 3 PM SAKAI EARLY SUBMISSION OF FINA:L EXAM ENCOURAGED! 3 GRADING: A = 90 – 100 C+ = 77 – 79 F = Below 60 B+ = 87 - 89 C = 70 - 76 B = 80 – 86 D = 60 – 69 Group presentations will be graded as a group (same grade to all group members) – grades will be based on clarity, quality of oral presentations, group PowerPoint (watch your spelling) presentation, and professionalism. Lecture Attendance: Students are expected to attend all classes, complete all readings and assignments, and actively participate in discussions. As this course only meets once a week, it is imperative that you don’t miss any of our classes – or leave early. Note that class attendance and participation is graded out of the total number of class sessions – and worth 5% of your final course grade. Per the new Rutgers University policy, if you expect to miss a class, please use the University absence reporting website https://sims.rutgers.edu/ssra/ <https://sims.rutgers.edu/ssra/> to indicate the date and reason for your absence. An email is automatically sent to me. If you do not complete this information and have missed multiple (more than two) classes, I will be contacting you. Generally, the only reasons for an excused absence (which I will assess on the basis of the reporting system) are extreme illness or a family emergency. It is your responsibility to make arrangements with a fellow student (not the instructor) for class notes. If the weather is predicted to be severe on a particular class meeting day, and/or Rutgers is issuing weather warnings for our campus for the day of our class meeting, I will be getting in touch with the class with SAKAI- generated emails and announcements as to whether the class is cancelled or postponed. If we are to miss a class session, be forewarned that I may require you to watch a posted video/class lecture or participate in an online chat discussion (through SAKAI) so that we can keep up with class materials. Two Short Essay Assignments: Two short essay assignments are due on September 27 and October 18 - in class. These assignments are both summarized in the course schedule (you can get a head start if you wish, but please do not turn these in esrly) and are designed to help you apply the concepts you have learned in class as well as present some of your opinions on cultural resource management as practiced today in written form. 4 Research Paper: You are required to write a short research paper (approximately 10 double spaced pages in length) on any topic concerning cultural resource management – the paper will be due on the final day of class (December 6, 5 PM) to be submitted as a Word file on our course SAKAI website (Dropbox). I will discuss this assignment in
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